Cody Simmonds

“It’s almost impossible to reconcile creativity with cleanliness. The sculptor gets metal dust all over his studio. The writer must wade through a clutter of notes, books, and crumpled drafts to get to her desk. The rock musician must weave through a tangle of cables, black boxes, guitar stands, and song notes to sit down and create.”
― Marty Neumeier, The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity

“Black Power was met by a new slogan, one spat out like a racist slur. Law and order.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“Often the most resource-ful person is the one who has tried the most approaches, taken the most risks, failed the most times.”
― Marty Neumeier, The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity

“A lot of this lightness, Waits said, came from watching his children grow up and seeing their total freedom of creative expression. He noticed that his children felt fully entitled to make up songs all the time, and when they were done with them, they would toss them out “like little origami things, or paper airplanes.” Then they would sing the next song that came through the channel. They never seemed to worry that the flow of ideas would dry up. They never stressed about their creativity, and they never competed against themselves; they merely lived within their inspiration, comfortably and unquestioningly.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear